"The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling."
-Robert M. Pirsig
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"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.“
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"Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions."
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"Even in the presence of others he was completely alone."
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"Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food."
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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
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